Invitation to the 54th ARC in 2019 in Indianapolis By Jeff Beckley Data mining=Big data By Jeff Beckley The next Actuarial Research Conference will be held in Indianapolis on Aug. 14–17, 2019.

Letter From The Editors Actuaries are caught in a perfect storm. Since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, actuaries have had to deliver more information to senior management and at the ...

Calibrating Risk Score Model with Partial Credibility by Shea Parkes and Brad Armstrong Learn how to use concepts like ridge regression to train a model with partial credibility. Predictive ...

Letter from the Editor Introduction to this edition of CompAct with highlights of the content of each contributed article. By Mark Africa and Paul Ramirez  Data quality;Predictive ...

Nudge Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness by Thaler and Sunstein FSA exam;human reasoning;amusing examples;judgement errors;decision making Nudge: Improving ...

Letter From The Chair It’s been an active year for the Technology Section. We sponsored a variety of sessions at actuarial meetings throughout the year and also offered several webcasts. ; By J.

Overview of the Master's Student Actuarial Research Course at UC, Santa Barbara By Ian Duncan Regression Analysis;Health Insurance;Generalized Linear Models By Ian Duncan The Department of ...

Table It in Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel Tables are excellent for manipulating data. This article will explain some techniques that have proved useful in my personal experience. ; By Paul ...

General Insurance Research Update An update of activities related to General Insurance involving research at the Society of Actuaries. By Scott Lennox Deductible;Generalized linear model;Hedging; ...

Letter from the Editors Welcome fellow members of the Society of Actuaries Technology Section to the third 2016 edition of CompAct. We have fallen short on our goal to deliver four issues for ...